CLEANLINESS OF BODY AND MIND If we interview many of life's failures we will find that the overwhelming majority went down because of their neglect to get out of an environment that was not stimulating and because their ambitions had grown rusty and inefficient to cope with depressing circumstances.

The prisons and other institutions are filled with people who did not make any attempt to get away from the vicious surroundings in which they lived.

They were like tadpoles that had never grown to frogs ...

they just kept swimming around in their muddy puddles and, not having grown legs with which they could leap out onto the banks and away to other climes, they continued to swim in monotonous circles until they died.

In other words, the failure is a man who dwells in muddy atmosphere all his days, who is content to remain a tadpole and who never attempts to take advantage of any opportunity.